gx
\d͡ʒo\
The verdict
“gx” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,568) as a typographic variant. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,568
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système x de ĝ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-gx · gx · French
gx · rank #48,568 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,568
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH guérilleros
Nearest frequency peer: guérilleros (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « gx »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Guillou
Guillou
51,436 corpus weight
- guérilleros
guérilleros
51,434 corpus weight
- gx
gx
51,433 corpus weight
- génique
génique
51,432 corpus weight
- généralisat…
généralisations
51,431 corpus weight
- Gérardmer
Gérardmer
51,430 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « gx » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \d͡ʒo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #48,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « gx »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for gx is neighbouring look-alikes ("gym", "G", …), not just typos; it is atypographic variant pronounced \d͡ʒo\. Frequency #48,568 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système x de ĝ.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gx, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gym", "G", "go", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is gx, spelled G-X.
Definition
- 1Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système x de ĝ.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.